Tot Hot to Trot 31 Mar 2010Tot Hot to Trot 31 Mar 2010
A live performance by funky new band, Gaps at Sea will get April's Theology on Tap off to a great start on Easter Monday when more than 700 are expected to crowd into PJ Gallagher's Irish pub in Parramatta. ...

Hanging with ySpace29 Mar 2010Hanging with ySpace29 Mar 2010
A new online newsletter highlighting youth ministry events, parish and school communities has been launched in the Archdiocese. Bright, different and using "yGen language", the newsletter was launched with a group of Yr 12 students from Marist Sisters College at Woolwich. ...

Papal Agenda for Holy Week 29 Mar 2010Papal Agenda for Holy Week 29 Mar 2010
Thousands of people pour into Rome for Holy Week When the Pope takes part in all the solemn activities and then celebrations of Easter. His agenda began with the traditional blessing of the palms on Palm Sunday and the Palm Sunday Mass.

ACU to Research Catholic Education for 21st Century18 Mar 2010ACU to Research Catholic Education for 21st Century18 Mar 2010
The Australian Catholic University is to establish a new professorial Chair to research and develop curricula for Catholic students at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. The proposed national Chair in Identity and Curriculum, which will be based at ACU's Brisbane Campus, will identify how curricula at Catholic schools and universities can best prepare students and equip them spiritually as well as academically for life in the 21st century. ...

New Era for Rosemount 15 Mar 2010New Era for Rosemount 15 Mar 2010
The number of young people at risk who can be given critical help will increase thanks to the construction of two new buildings at Rosemount Good Shepherd Youth and Community Services in Marrickville. ...

Religious Freedom Under Siege12 Mar 2010Religious Freedom Under Siege12 Mar 2010
A leading US expert on constitutional law, and law and religion, says a Charter of Human Rights is a bad idea and warns Australia against adopting one. "Whatever is written into the charter is of secondary importance to the way the courts will interpret it," says Gerard Bradley, Professor of Law at Notre Dame University, Indiana, ...

Mass for Sydney Chileans3 Mar 2010Mass for Sydney Chileans3 Mar 2010
St Benedict's Catholic Church at Smithfield will be packed on Monday, March 8 when Sydney's Chilean and Latin American communities turn out in force to pray for the victims of the 8.8 earthquake ...

Cathedral Font Restored to Former Glory3 Mar 2010Cathedral Font Restored to Former Glory3 Mar 2010
When the owner of Australia's last surviving firm of traditional silversmith manufacturers inspected the heavy silver dome covering St Mary's Cathedral's baptismal font, he instantly suspected it had been dropped at sometime in the past, splitting the metal and damaging the silver in several places. ...